In recent months, information providers have released a range of modifications to many abstracting and full text journal platforms. Whether an update to its look and feel or a radical restructuring of its search, browse, and full text features, any successful change to a familiar interface requires communication, tolerance, and understanding among the affected information provider, publisher(s), and library customers.

Join NISO on April 11, 2012 from 1:00 to 2:30 p.m. Eastern for the webinar What to Expect When You’re Expecting a Platform Change, where a publisher and a librarian will share their own experiences with determining priorities, learning lessons, and improving practices related to changed and changing information platforms.

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Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway: How to Manage a Platform Migration – Gillian Howcroft (Director, E-Projects, Taylor & Francis)

The journal industry has invested a huge amount ($3.2+ Billion) since 2000 in digitization initiatives and many publishers launched new platforms in 2006/7 and again in 2010/11. How can we keep up with rapidly evolving web technologies and achieve this in an interoperable fashion keeping disruption to a minimum for the librarian and their users? Howcroft shares her experiences in moving interfaces ahead.

Librarians spend a great deal of time working with electronic resource platforms and helping their users navigate them. What can publishers do to mitigate the interruptions of a migration and maximize the potential time savings, increased usage, and improved user experience that can result from improving a platform? Smith shares lessons learned during previous migrations to help librarians and vendors determine priorities and improve practices related to changing information platforms.

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